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Free stuff Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:30:18
Book cover via Amazon FYI, for those interested in these sorts of things: Women on the Web, an online women’s magazine, is giving away a beach bag containing an autographed copy of Jane Green’s The Beach House, Lancaster sunscreen products and a custom beach towel to five lucky readers. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fcollectedmiscellany.com%2F2008%2F09%2Ffree-stuff%2F’; addthis_title = [...]
Constellation Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:34:42
I hope this means more books available for Kindle and available on the publication date. I seem to have looked at a few books who were not available on the Kindle until after the hardback had been released. Might have something to do with the publisher’s profit on each item. I would love to see digital [...]
Lamplighter (Monster Blood Tattoo, Book 2) by D.M. Cornish Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:00:32
Book cover via Amazon Way back in May when I saw that the second book in the Monster Blood Tattoo series by D.M. Cornish, the sequel to Foundling, was being released I was excited. But I will admit that I was a little nervous when I saw that Lamplighter was such a large tome (over 700 [...]

Obama's con

Great Blogger Headlines Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:30:17
Fisking Obama on his ridiculous attacks on Sarah Palin is like shooting fish in a barrel, but I wanted to draw your attention to two of my favorite responses. Ace has a long but effective title to his post: Extremely Confused Would-Be Commander-in-Chief Launches “Harshest Attack Yet” on Woman Who’s Not Technically Even His Opponent Ace links to [...]
Obama’s false bravado on change Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:54:00
Obama has clearly decided to run a campaign against President Bush. And he has also lost any sense of shame. He is constantly accusing his opponents of things that apply equally, or even more so, to himself. Take today: “Don’t be fooled,” a particularly punchy Obama told a crowd this morning at a town hall meeting [...]
Obama continues to smear opponents Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:02:40
Obama goes back to the “they will try to scare you” complaint: “I know that I’m not your typical presidential candidate,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told executives and employees of the Schott glass company Friday afternoon, “and I just want to be honest with you. I know that.” “And I know that the temptation is to say, [...]

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Dueling Movie Reviews: Dark Water

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David Edelstein at Slate:

. . . this is an eerie, relentlessly grim, invasive little movie-a tone poem of despair that seeps into you like the damp. It’s the sort of film that, even in midsummer, makes you wish you’d brought along a couple of heavy sweaters. And maybe an umbrella.

Thomas Hibbs at National Review Online:

“I’m not crazy,” the main character, Dahlia (Jennifer Connelly), exclaims at one point in the new film Dark Water. Given that she is haunted by bad memories of her wicked mother, lives in an apartment with multiple leaks, and has a hard time distinguishing her own daughter from the ghost who lives upstairs, the temptation to judge her insane is pretty strong. She is saved from this judgment by the fact that the film and Connelly’s role in particular are simply fatuous, in the vapid horror-film sense that every decision she makes seems designed for predictably bad results. With only one marginally creepy scene toward the end, this film is a real contender for worst film released this year.